4 Star Engineers for Argon vs HOP mission - impossible?

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4 Star Engineers for Argon vs HOP mission - impossible?

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As the title asks, is it possible to find high level engineers somewhere, or is this a flawed mission?
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Re: 4 Star Engineers for Argon vs HOP mission - impossible?

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In a several hundred hours playthrough i got 1 guy with 4 star engineering. Rest was all 0/1.

You need to train them by assigning them to ships that take damage frequently. Pretty high price for a mission.

As i heard the arg vs xen plot gives you trained personnel at some point, but not sure if those are engineers.
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Re: 4 Star Engineers for Argon vs HOP mission - impossible?

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pref wrote: Tue, 12. Mar 19, 01:25 As i heard the arg vs xen plot gives you trained personnel at some point, but not sure if those are engineers.
What plot?

In any case yeh those missions are really not worth it seeing how hard good employees are to find. Apparently this may be fixed with a later update allowing one to more rapidly train staff.
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Re: 4 Star Engineers for Argon vs HOP mission - impossible?

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Or they could just activate those digital seminars collecting dust in inventory.
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Re: 4 Star Engineers for Argon vs HOP mission - impossible?

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Get a builder ship, build a few medium stations. I have about 50 5 star engineers from a single builder ship service crew.
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Re: 4 Star Engineers for Argon vs HOP mission - impossible?

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Wizzard~Of~Ozz wrote: Tue, 12. Mar 19, 12:58 Get a builder ship, build a few medium stations. I have about 50 5 star engineers from a single builder ship service crew.
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Re: 4 Star Engineers for Argon vs HOP mission - impossible?

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I found they gain XP really fast on a destroyer. I think it's based on how much hull they repair, so pack a big ship full of em and go get yourself shot.
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Re: 4 Star Engineers for Argon vs HOP mission - impossible?

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Imperial Good wrote: Tue, 12. Mar 19, 03:44 What plot?

In any case yeh those missions are really not worth it seeing how hard good employees are to find. Apparently this may be fixed with a later update allowing one to more rapidly train staff.
The war mission Argon vs Xenon. Don't know how far you have to go, have never done those missions.

I also never do deliver skilled crew missions, happy if i get a few skilled guys.
But since 2.0 skill increases in some roles are quicker ime, probably shouldn't take long to raise some skills by getting a capship, shooting its hull to 1% and letting the crew do the repair. Maybe get rid of repair drones for the training, so the crew has more %s to work on.

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